 | John Miller Dow Meiklejohn - 1886 - Liczba stron: 428
...to a drowning sailor : — " No voice divine the storm allayed, No light propitious shone, When, far from all effectual aid, We perished — each alone...— But I beneath a rougher sea, And •whelmed in blacker gulfs than he." 12. His greatest work is The Task; and the best poem in it is probably " The... | |
 | Frederic William Farrar - 1886 - Liczba stron: 392
...of God's creatures, because they had not done wrong. It was this which wrung from Cowper the cry : " We perished each alone ; But I beneath a rougher sea, And whelmed in deeper gulfs than he." It was this which caused the holy martyr, Bradford, to exclaim, pointing to a criminal... | |
 | Clara Linklater Thomson - 1914 - Liczba stron: 82
...misery still delights to trace Its semblance in another's case. " No voice divine the storm allay'd, No light propitious shone, When, snatched from all...But I beneath a rougher sea, And whelmed in deeper gulfs than he." 2 IX. IN speaking of the poetry of colonisation and exploration, we have mentioned... | |
 | Stopford Augustus Brooke - 1875 - Liczba stron: 362
...voice choked, he again dashes himself into the fate of the sailor, and both perish in the seas :->— No voice divine the storm allayed, No light propitious shone, When, snatched from all effectual aidj We perished, each alone ; But I beneath a rougher sea, And whelmed in deeper gulfs than he. The... | |
 | David Daiches - 1979 - Liczba stron: 336
...melancholy theme A more enduring date: But misery still delights to trace Its semblance in another's case. No voice divine the storm allayed, No light propitious...rougher sea, And whelmed in deeper gulphs than he. Something of the same sense of personal desolation, though subdued to a more quietly elegiac mood,... | |
 | Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick - 1990 - Liczba stron: 276
...lives than one More deaths than one must die.17 Think of the cognate, ravishing lines of Cowper— We perished, each alone, But I beneath a rougher sea And whelmed in deeper gulfs than hels 17. The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde (Twickenham, Middlesex: Hamlyn, 1963), pp. 732,... | |
 | Laura Quinney - 1999 - Liczba stron: 232
...fallen into a life that has to regard itself as posthumous — omitted from history, confined to itself: No voice divine the storm allayed, No light propitious...rougher sea, And whelmed in deeper gulphs than he. (6i-66) Cowper emphasizes the image of death in solitude, the harsh end of a life that knows itself... | |
 | Elizabeth M. Knowles - 1999 - Liczba stron: 1160
...blunders. Who's the Dupe) ( 1 779) act 2; cf. Nietzsche 545:12 William Cowper 1731-1800 Enalish poet 27 No voice divine the storm allayed, No light propitious...snatched from all effectual aid, We perished, each ulonc: But I beneath a rougher sea, And whelmed in deeper gulfs than he. 'The Castaway' (written 1... | |
 | Douglas Bond - 1999 - Liczba stron: 260
...lines in English poetry: No voice divine the storm allay'd, No light propitious shone; When, snatch'd from all effectual aid, We perished each alone: But I beneath a rougher sea, And whelm'd in deeper gulfs than he." "That doesn't sound like the same man who wrote the hymn," said Drew.... | |
 | Ian Gaskell - 2001 - Liczba stron: 516
...after they shoot us? What was that poem you used to recite, Babulal, to impress the peasantry? 3rd Man: We perished, each alone; But I beneath a rougher sea, And whelmed in deeper gulfs than he. 1st Man: (sardonically) Drowning as literary conceit. Tonight we may be dead conceits,... | |
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No voice divine the storm allayed, No light propitious shone, When, snatched from all effectual aid, We perished, each alone : But I beneath a rougher sea, And whelmed in deeper gulfs than he. 
